The issue of scale for the carbon certification framework.

The document below is the initial output from Credible's Focus Group 2.2 and the session held during the first European Carbon Farming Summit. It is a live document that will be improved thanks to everyone's participation in this public consultation and the subsequent activities of the Focus Group. By sending your opinion on the matter, you can contribute to bring valuable knowledge to the attention of the broader expert community and policy makers. We therefore invite all stakeholders and simple citizens to make your voice heard. It is the time to contribute to fair and transparent European policies, ones that can help the agricultural and forest sectors to stand out as an important solution to our current climate crisis.

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Juan Antonio (Spain) | International Olive Council

06, 24

The success of the development of CRCF will lie in finding that point of balance between the necessary coordination, integration, homogenisation and supervision by the European Commission and the simple and beneficial application at individual farm level throughout the territory. But in my opinion, the axis is not only territorial, I believe that the sectoral variable should be incorporated. The evapo-respiratory processes and the agro-ecological behaviour of the different crops and farming systems are totally decisive when assessing their potential for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere. For example, the agro-environmental behaviour of a woody crop such as an olive grove, which is more similar to a forest than that of a herbaceous crop, has nothing to do with it. Therefore, I would like to suggest a similar approach to the one carried out within the Commission's initiative "building a simple market for green products" in which the regulation for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products was developed. This initiative proposed a general methodological framework for the determination of the environmental footprint (PEF), and enabled the development of product category rules for the effective application of the general rule to the specificities of each product (PEFCR). The product group rules act as guidelines for the application of the general criteria of the regulation to the specificities of a product or sector. In this sense, I would propose the development of voluntary product group or sector rules, in which the general criteria are applied in a more concrete way. For example, a product group rule for olive groves, defining sector-specific criteria for the application of additionality, the establishment of the baseline, etc., etc. could be applied in olive orchards projects.